CPUEmbeddedReleased Mar 11, 2025

MediaTek Genio 720

8C/8T · 2.6 GHz

Higher-performance sibling of the Genio 520, unveiled by MediaTek at Embedded World on March 11, 2025 as a generative-AI-capable IoT platform. Built on TSMC's 6 nm process, it runs two Cortex-A78 cores at up to 2.6 GHz (2.4 GHz in the industrial grade) and six Cortex-A55 cores at 2.0 GHz, with a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU at 1.1 GHz and an 8th-generation MediaTek NPU delivering 9 TOPS, or 10 TOPS for the whole system. It supports LPDDR4X-4266 up to 8 GB or LPDDR5X-6400 up to 16 GB, a single ultra-wide 5K60 display, and is pin-to-pin compatible with the Genio 520 and Genio 420.

General

Manufacturer: MediaTek
Model: MediaTek Genio 720
Segment: Embedded
Generation: Genio
Codename: MT8391
Architecture: ARM64
Microarchitecture: 2× Cortex-A78 + 6× Cortex-A55
Release date: Mar 11, 2025
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads: 8 cores / 8 threadsP2+E6
Base clock: —
Boost clock: 2.60 GHz
TDP (design W): —
Unlocked: ✕ No
L2 cache: —
L3 cache: —
Technology (nm): 6 nm
TSMC N6

Platform

Socket: —
2-CPU (multi-socket): ✕ No
Integrated GPU: Arm Mali-G57 MC2
Clock: 1,100 MHz
Memory type: LPDDR4X-4266 / LPDDR5X-6400
Memory size: Up to 16 GB
ECC memory: —
PCIe: PCIe 2.0 (1 lane)

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions: Armv8.2-A (AArch64)
NPU: MediaTek 8th-Gen NPU (MDLA5.3) — 9 TOPS

OS support

Linux: Ubuntu
Notes: MediaTek officially supports Android and Yocto Linux (IoT Yocto). Canonical offers Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images as an early-access release. Windows, macOS and ChromeOS are not supported, and Fedora and Arch Linux have no official support.

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